2 EXTERIOR CONFORMATION 



wanted for quick work, than one whose pace 

 need never exceed a walk. In the one case, it 

 is absolutely requisite, but in the other, is only 

 a secondary consideration. 



The horse in most general use, is a compound 

 of the speed of the racer and the power of the 

 draught horse : and it is the different proportions 

 in which these qualities exist, that make one a 

 hunter, another a hackney, &c. To explain how 

 a certain form makes one horse fleet, and another 

 powerful, would, in mest cases, lead to an ana- 

 tomical consideration of the whole machine, so 

 that in the majority of cases, I can only state 

 the fact, and those who wish for more, may 

 obtain it by some dissection, and a careful perusal 

 of " The Horse," in the Library of Useful Know- 

 ledge — a work, by the way, which no admirer or 

 proprietor of the horse should be without. I 

 shall only observe here, that difference in form 

 is almost entirely produced by the relative pro- 

 portion (length generally) of the bones, and the 

 position they occupy. The muscles are the organs 

 of motion, and in proportion to their development, 

 the animal is strong, but the bones being the 

 levers upon which the muscles act, that strength, 

 and the horse's action, must be considerably in- 



